The Trump assassination attempt dominated proceedings.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/14/the-incredible-news-photos-that-won-the-2025-eyes-of-history-contest/
The Trump assassination attempt in Butler, PA, dominated the 2025 Eyes of History® photo contest — organized by The White House News Photographers Association — as the two top honors both went to photographers present that day.
Here are must-read Aperture titles this Women’s History Month, from the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits.
via Aperture: https://aperture.org/editorial/15-inspiring-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
From the Japanese artists who transformed photography to Tina Barney’s large-scale portraits of the haute bourgeoisie, here are must-read titles this Women’s History Month.
https://aperture.org/editorial/15-inspiring-photobooks-by-women-photographers/
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
via Hyperallergic: http://hyperallergic.com/996133/getty-acquires-raymond-pettibon-archive/
The trove comprises drawings, notes, concert flyers, prints, zines, skateboards, and a surfboard, filling 28 boxes, as well as paints and materials related to the artist’s process.
https://hyperallergic.com/996133/getty-acquires-raymond-pettibon-archive/
We are pleased to announce that Maria Guțu is the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award 2024. The Moldovan photographer’s series, Homeland, draws from her personal experiences of growing up with her grandparents, while her parents, like many in her homeland, had to move abroad for economic reasons. Her work reflects on the themes of roots and home in the context of a country where nearly a quarter of the population has left in the past two decades.
(508) LOBA 2024 Winner – Davide Monteleone – YouTube:
How can sustainability emerge in the future without repeating the errors of the past? The series questions the change-over to renewable energy sources and reveals the problems related to the complex geopolitical, social and ecological effects of copper, lithium and cobalt mining.
Her work explores themes of war, destruction, and memory.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/10/photographer-sophie-ristelhueber-receives-the-2025-hasselblad-award-and-200000/
Photographer Sophie Ristelhueber is the 2025 Hasselblad Award laureate, the world’s largest photography award, and is set to receive a Hasselblad camera and two million Swedish Krona ($197,000).
Carl De Keyzer has faced a backlash.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/10/magnum-photographer-carl-de-keyzer-couldnt-shoot-in-russia-so-he-controversially-used-ai-instead/
Carl De Keyzer made his name by capturing very real photographs from the Soviet Union, India, and the Belgian Congo. However, for his most recent project, De Keyzer swapped the camera for artificial intelligence imaging tools.
The four women win $10,000 and a high-end Leica photo kit.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/03/08/leica-women-foto-award-2025-winners-showcase-unity-through-diversity/
This year’s awardees are American photographer Priya Suresh Kambli, Canadian Jennifer Osborne, Mexican photographer Koral Carballo, and Anna Neubauer of the United Kingdom. They were selected by a panel of acclaimed and notable judges, including award-winning photojournalists, and each winner will receive a Leica SL3 camera, Vario-Elmarit-SL 24-70mm f/2.8 ASPH lens, and $10,000.
The real danger lies in photographs of US military personnel. Photographs of people who have sacrificed their lives are now purged from military archives to satisfy a false supremacist narrative.
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/the-real-threat-when-the-most-powerful-military-fears-its-own-images/
It’s a housecleaning effort that exposes a truth often whispered but rarely acknowledged: When governments feel threatened by images, it’s not the pixels they fear but the truth those images represent.
https://blog.melchersystem.com/the-real-threat-when-the-most-powerful-military-fears-its-own-images/
Jackie Molloy shares the importance of connecting with your subjects and how it can often lead to successful and more meaningful storytelling
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2025/03/05/episode-137-jackie-molloy-documentary-photography/
Jackie has made a name for herself by focusing on sensitive topics like family dynamics, motherhood, and single parenting
In 2024, Gun violence resulted in 40,886 deaths and 31,652 injuries. More than 5,200 of those were children and teens. The number of school shootings in each of the last 4 years is more than 107 percent higher than any year prior to that for the last 25 years. In 2024, there were 330 incidents
via LENSCRATCH: https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/nancy-kaye-too-many-gunshots/
Photographer Nancy Kaye began to document the vast numbers of gun images that we are confronted with on a daily basis
https://lenscratch.com/2025/03/nancy-kaye-too-many-gunshots/
It’s with words heavy in pain that we write these lines. Jocelyn Manfredi, the unwavering pillar of Sipa Press and photojournalism, has left us.
via Thoughts of a Bohemian: https://blog.melchersystem.com/photojournalism-favorite-sister-jocelyn-manfredi/
It’s with words heavy in pain that we write these lines. Jocelyn Manfredi, the unwavering pillar of Sipa Press and photojournalism, has left us. Jocelyn was a multiple exception. A woman in a world full of macho men, she juggled multiple conversations while watching the news, in various languages, still making you feel like you were the most important person in the world. She was always on, always meeting deadlines, always getting film in and photographers out, smiling and frowning at the same time.
https://blog.melchersystem.com/photojournalism-favorite-sister-jocelyn-manfredi/
Book Review Record 2 Photographs by Daido Moriyama Reviewed by Brian Arnold “The first book I got by Daido Moriyama was ’71 New York, …
Link: https://blog.photoeye.com/2025/02/record-2-reviewed-by-brian-arnold.html
My favorite part of Record 2 is the writing. The pictures are superlative, no doubt, but there is something so rigid and stylistic about Moriyama’s approach. The short texts, however, have an informal, conversational appeal, like he’s talking to you on the train. In them we witness Moriyama reflecting on ideas developed during his friendship with Takuma Nakahira; things he learned from Bruce Davidson, Eikoh Hosoi, Nobuyoshi Araki, and Eraserhead; the COVID lockdown; and receiving the Hasselblad Award
https://blog.photoeye.com/2025/02/record-2-reviewed-by-brian-arnold.html
Moving accounts of some of the men and women behind the striking images that have encapsulated the war.
In the three years since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, hundreds of photographers have documented the human impact of the war on the front line and in civilian areas.
In this archive episode, Paul Conroy talks about his work with Marie Colvin on capturing the true stories of the war in Syria.
via A Photojournalism Podcast for Everyone – A Photojournalism Podcast by Photojournalists for Everyone: https://10fps.net/2025/02/26/episode-60-paul-conroy-conflict-photography/
A significant aspect of Conroy’s work is the deep bond he shared with Marie Colvin, a renowned journalist who was tragically killed in Syria. Their relationship was built on trust and a shared mission to tell the stories of those affected by conflict. Conroy describes their partnership as almost telepathic, allowing them to operate seamlessly in chaotic environments.
If AI can paint, compose, and design with intent, what remains uniquely human in creativity? Is the process of making—intuition, struggle, discovery—essential, or will humans become mere curators of AI-generated art? When execution is automated, does creativity lose its meaning?
via Kaptur: https://kaptur.co/the-last-creative-spark-ai-the-blank-page-and-the-loss-of-the-process/
The belief that AI merely imitates while humans originate is being challenged by rapid advancements in machine learning. If we increasingly outsource execution, we risk losing not only craftsmanship but the process that allows ideas to evolve into something more than their original spark.
https://kaptur.co/the-last-creative-spark-ai-the-blank-page-and-the-loss-of-the-process/
From the gritty realism of the miners’ strike and anti-racist protests to the subversive art of staged portraits and image-text works, Tate Britain’s latest show, The 80s: Photographing Britain, attempts to bring to life a decade shaped by Thatcher-era turbulence, revealing the stark divisions within photography throughout the process. Yet, with nearly 350 images from over 70 photographers, Mark Durden asks if Tate Britain has taken on an impossible challenge?
via 1000 Words: https://1000wordsmag.com/the-80s-photographing-britain/
From the gritty realism of the miners’ strike and anti-racist protests to the subversive art of staged portraits and image-text works, Tate Britain’s latest show, The 80s: Photographing Britain, attempts to bring to life a decade shaped by Thatcher-era turbulence, revealing the stark divisions within photography throughout the process. Yet, with nearly 350 images from over 70 photographers, Mark Durden asks if Tate Britain has taken on an impossible challenge?
One photographer has customized a 100-year-old 360-degree camera.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/02/27/extreme-sprocket-hole-photography-uses-four-film-rolls-to-create-one-picture-panorama/
An experimental photographer customized a 100-year-old 360-degree camera so it can shoot four rolls of film at the same time to create one cohesive picture.
In an exclusive interview, PetaPixel talked with Austin Bell, the artist who photographed every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/02/26/this-photographer-captured-all-2549-basketball-court-in-hong-kong/
Photographer Austin Bell photographed every outdoor basketball court in Hong Kong in an eye-catching new series titled “SHOOTING HOOPS.”
https://petapixel.com/2025/02/26/this-photographer-captured-all-2549-basketball-court-in-hong-kong/
Free speech advocates are worried.
via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2025/02/26/white-house-breaks-from-century-of-precedent-takes-control-of-press-pool-that-covers-trump/
“This move tears at the independence of a free press in the United States. It suggests the government will choose the journalists who cover the president. In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps,” WCHA president Eugene Daniels said.